Are you ready to start your career in a rapidly progressing company with service at the heart of everything we do? Then you’ve come to the right place.
We are GC Partners and we are a specialist financial exchange company. We help Private and Corporate clients move their money at the best rate, using our 20 years of experience, our bespoke technology and dedication to customer service. We have 6 offices around the globe including Hong Kong and Dubai, with further expansion in the future.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Risk Analyst to join our busy and growing Risk Team.
If you have a collaborative and adaptable work ethic, a drive for success and are looking for your next opportunity then we would like to hear from you.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Head of Risk, as Risk Analyst you will be focusing on…
Duties/Responsibilities
- Exhibit GC values: accountability, passion, integrity, excellence, collaboration and personalisation.
- Accountable for understanding Consumer Duty policy and procedures; partnering and collaborating within the team to achieve set standards.
- Support the operation and enhancement of the risk management framework, including policies, standards, methodologies, risk appetite measures, limits and escalation processes.
- Coordinate enterprise-wide risk assessments, including risk and control self-assessments, thematic reviews, emerging risk assessments and strategic risk reviews.
- Identify, assess, monitor and report credit, counterparty, market, liquidity, capital, concentration and other material financial risks across the organisation.
- Maintain financial risk metrics, limits, key risk indicators and dashboards, highlighting breaches, trends and emerging exposures for review.
- Support stress testing, scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis to assess the potential impact of adverse market, liquidity, credit or macroeconomic conditions.
- Maintain and analyse enterprise risk registers, issue logs, risk events, control weaknesses and action plans to support effective oversight and escalation.
- Develop, monitor and report key risk indicators, key control indicators and risk appetite metrics to provide early warning of changing risk exposure.
- Prepare clear and concise risk reporting, dashboards and committee papers for senior management, executive committees and board-level governance forums.
- Monitor external market developments, regulatory change and macroeconomic trends that may affect the organisation’s financial resilience.
- Support stress testing, scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis to assess the potential impact of adverse market, liquidity, credit or macroeconomic conditions.
- Assist with internal audit, external assurance, regulatory engagement and evidence gathering relating to risk management activities.
Qualification & Experience
- Good understanding of financial risk management, including credit risk, counterparty risk, market risk, liquidity risk, capital risk and risk appetite frameworks.
- Experience supporting financial risk monitoring, KRIs, limit tracking, stress testing, scenario analysis, dashboards or management information.
- Strong quantitative, analytical and data interpretation skills, with the ability to identify trends, concentrations, sensitivities and potential risk drivers.
- Good Excel and data analysis skills; experience with reporting tools, databases, SQL, Python, R or risk systems would be beneficial.
- Good understanding of enterprise risk management principles, including risk appetite, risk taxonomy, governance, risk reporting and the three lines model.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative risk information and identify trends, themes and emerging issues.
- Experience supporting risk assessments, RCSAs, risk registers, action tracking, issue management, control testing or assurance activities.
- Ability to develop meaningful risk metrics, dashboards and management information that support senior decision-making.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk matters into clear, practical insight.
- High attention to detail, strong organisation and the ability to manage deadlines across reporting, governance and regulatory cycles.
Benefits of working at GC Partners
- 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays
- Workplace pension – employer contributions
- Complimentary Health insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- A truly global business with opportunities for growth
Equal opportunities
GC Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and each applicant is given fair consideration throughout the recruitment process.
Please be aware that due to the volume of applicants, we may not be able to respond to all applications.
